where can I download OS X Mavericks 10.9 Update

I'm afraid Mavericks is no longer available. If your Mac is capable of handling Sierra you can upgrade to that for free. If it isn't, but is capable of handling El Capitan you can upgrade to that using this special link:

Connecting to the Mac App Store

Note that if your Mac is capable of handling Sierra this link is not available to you.

Your only other upgrade is Mountain Lion (10.8) which is available in the USA (but not the UK) in the Apple Store:

OS X Mountain Lion - Apple

The requirements for Mountain Lion and El Capitan are:

• OS X v10.6.8 or later
• 2GB of memory
• 8GB of available space

and the supported models are:

• iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
• MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
• MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)
• Xserve (Early 2009)
• MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
• Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)
• Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)

Sierra is limited to the following machines:

• MacBook (Late 2009 or newer)
• MacBook Pro (Mid 2010 or newer)
• MacBook Air (Late 2010 or newer)
• Mac mini (Mid 2010 or newer)
• iMac (Late 2009 or newer)
• Mac Pro (Mid 2010 or newer)

Check to make sure your applications are compatible.

Application Compatibility

Applications Compatibility (2)

El Capitan 10.11 Compatibility information

macOS Sierra 10.12: Compatible Apps

Also check to make sure there is a compatible driver for your printer.

Do a backup before installing, preferable 2 backups on 2 different drives.

Apple - Support - Downloads

Your requested version is there... maybe? Search "Mavericks 10.9" and scroll-scroll-scroll!

However, you may find Mavericks.app 1.5 GB must be installed first, before you can install any 200-300 MB Update.

Which rather dampens my question above, concerning a Revival version of Mavericks.

Or maybe, having an earlier Mavericks version, still gives you license to Maverick-On!

Osiyo wrote:

Apple - Support - Downloads

Your requested version is there... Search "Mavericks 10.9" and scroll-scroll-scroll!

However, you may find Mavericks.app 1.5 GB must be installed first, before you can install any 200-300 MB Update.

Sorry, but No. Those are either Mavericks Security Updates, or the Combo Updates that take the user from 10.9 to 10.9.5.

The "Install OS X Mavericks" should be on the order of 5 or 6GB in size (I do not have the exact size at the moment, but 1.5GB is way too small).

Fix for Skype is found within this post.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6776261

This fairly easy and straightfoward fix/hack should work for OS X 10.8, too!

Up to date, current and secure web browser for OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion found here

Waterfox Web browser

https://www.waterfoxproject.org/

Good Luck to You!

saraspeak wrote:

Well, darn. I have OS 10.8.5, and I can no longer use Skype or participate in some online presentations until I upgrade my browser (MacBook Air, mid-2012). Is it actually possible to skip Mavericks and upgrade directly to Yosemite, El Capitan, or Sierra?

macOS can be picky about what version it will upgrade from, but here are links to the 3 most recent macOS releases

El Capitan Link

<https://itunes.apple.com/app/os-x-el-capitan/id1147835434?mt=12>

.

Sierra Link

<https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/macos-sierra/id1127487414?mt=12>

How to download macOS Sierra

<https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208202>

<https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/macos-sierra/id1127487414?ls=1&mt=12>

.

High Sierra Link

<https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/macos-high-sierra/id1246284741?mt=12>

I have two words for this interesting thread: TOO SECURE. Command-R or ⌘-R brings us to where we reinstall Mac OS X. That 'recovery' download fails every time. Forgive me if I am wrong, but doesn't removing Mavericks make every Mac on the market redundant? All desktops ship with redundant Recovery. Apple mobile hardware is all recovering with big happy smiles. But all Macs are wearing a very tired, sore groan. I work in a big-city University Hospital where that kind of presentation does not bode well. But cheer up, please. Don't grudge that my links below are only discouraging, in only some respects. I found hopeful information therein, or at least a better understanding of where the Apple...

Our OS is expired, is the head-first initial acceptance. All our OS dependent 'new' desktops are expired, in that sense, however significant that may be. Okay, we accept that. It's the Apple Cook's new (bad tasting) recipe. So now, we all have questions (some anguished and some full of hope), some we would like answered. More like grudging fan acceptance, than a trend, but reasonable questions.

1. Does bogus ⌘-R "Reinstall Mac OS X" really mean my 'new' Mac is likewise expired, drifting off the market table?
2. Is there any, ANY way to Recover all our millions of uneasily 'expiring' Macs?
3. Why doesn't Apple offer a Mavericks revival edition that actually downloads and installs, so that so-called 'recovery' offers actual Recovery and not dead-end failure (Apple could at least direct us to oldest possible OS)?
4. Is there some hidden trick where iPhone users can download Mavericks with a USB 3 hookup?
5. Is bogus ⌘-R Apple's proof that Apple is moving on (trying hard, just can't find my desktop trend in there)?

Our second-to-last question actually stated to happen to us last week, but we killed the download, because we never asked for it at that time (iTunes was going to download Mavericks into the Downloads folder), and no... we have no idea what initiated that Mavericks download as soon as we plugged in iPhone 6+ with USB. Our last question is the biggie. It forces us all to ask, where are we going? Sort of like when Brits explain a parade of Scots. Noone would keep a thing in their pockets, as their pockets are full of holes. Frightening, it is! There must be a download somewhere. Scotland? Our new Mac Pro is in similar condition to "I-Killed" below, TWO CONSECUTIVE BAD MP SHIPMENTS IN A ROW. Only we are not AASP, so we can't use tools to workaround SIP-blocked Apple Hardware Diagnostics and determine what is really wrong (amazingly, with a loot of non-Apple parts, they do that). Or might be wrong (read links below to understand that the MP is a very complex machine, even pro repair people can often only guess what went wrong). Apple Diagnostics just don't work on the new OS. Noope, iCloud was no improvement, groping through firewall, encryption and then SIP.

On the bright side, our last contact at the Genius Bar told us, "Command-R and reinstall Mavericks. See if that works!" He sounded dead serious. Tell us it was a joke, please. Flat tire - take out manufacturer convenience air pump, no pump handle, run in circles. Not funny... Personally, I think iPhone on-the-fly component updates are the way to go. Microsoft built gradually improving Volume Shadow Services into Windows 8.2-10. iPhone proves that a Cloud component approach also works great for Apple! Apple's next move has to be to give our desktops wings. We hope, technically speaking. In the mean time... We are certain that since online AppleCare and physical Genius tools can't find problems while we can't Save, Copy, Boot etc., an copy-to-boot-stick effective diagnostic could set all of us at ease. Slight handicap, unlike open-source everything in the Linux world, Apple's Unix environment is strictly Verboten! Let's hope restrictions relax enough, in time. Still, we all want a 'yes'... Any tools for non-tech Mac people to analyze what's factually crashing behind our crashing desktops' - SIP sans Recovery? MAC-ON!

https://www.imore.com/biggest-problems-facing-apple-2017

http://michaelkammes.com/apple/how-i-killed-the-new-mac-pro/

GitHub - upekkha/AppleHardwareTest: Apple Hardware Test Download Links

Here's my situation: I have a 2010 Mac Pro 5,5, running Mountain Lion (and Sierra on a separate drive). I use this machine for Pro Tools v.10.3.10. I also use DropBox to send music to clients and collaborators (mostly the latter these days. Now, Pro Tools 10 cannot run on anything past Mavericks with any certainty (actually, it's a disaster), although it worlks well with Mavericks. On the other hand, DropBox has decided to drop support for Mac OS Mountain Lion or below. This will happen very soon.

Without paying for a full upgrade to PT 12 I thought my best bet would be to go to the one OS version both companies could agree on, Mavericks, only to find that option barred to me. I talked to a manager at a local Apple store and after consulting with his techs he told me that they could do the update if I brought in my Mac Pro. That is definitely not the best solution -- I live miles away from the closest store and since the computer is the heart of my audio studio I would need to have at least one day off to tear it down, take it in, then add it back into the system.

I know I am not the only person in this situation; is there any way that Apple could reintroduce the Mavericks update? Was the OS really so bad that Apple doesn't want anyone to use it ever again?

Thanks,

- Colin

Colin Mansfield wrote:

Here's my situation: I have a 2010 Mac Pro 5,5, running Mountain Lion (and Sierra on a separate drive). I use this machine for Pro Tools v.10.3.10. I also use DropBox to send music to clients and collaborators (mostly the latter these days. Now, Pro Tools 10 cannot run on anything past Mavericks with any certainty (actually, it's a disaster), although it worlks well with Mavericks. On the other hand, DropBox has decided to drop support for Mac OS Mountain Lion or below. This will happen very soon.

Without paying for a full upgrade to PT 12 I thought my best bet would be to go to the one OS version both companies could agree on, Mavericks, only to find that option barred to me. I talked to a manager at a local Apple store and after consulting with his techs he told me that they could do the update if I brought in my Mac Pro. That is definitely not the best solution -- I live miles away from the closest store and since the computer is the heart of my audio studio I would need to have at least one day off to tear it down, take it in, then add it back into the system.

I know I am not the only person in this situation; is there any way that Apple could reintroduce the Mavericks update? Was the OS really so bad that Apple doesn't want anyone to use it ever again?

Thanks,

- Colin

This is a user-to-user technical support forum. We do not have any control over Apple policies.

Can you call the Apple store back and ask if they could do the install to an external disk, where you ONLY bring the disk with you. Then you can boot from the external disk when you get home. You can also use SuperDuper, Carbon Copy Cloner or Disk Utility -> Restore to transfer the contents of the bootable external disk to any other bootable partition you want.

If you have another Mac that is old enough to run Mavericks, take that Mac with you. Again, it might be best to use an external disk as the Mavericks destination. But because "Stuff Happens", make sure any Mac you take with you is backed up.

Thanks a lot for the helpful reply. (I had forgotten this was user <-> user; your reply to the OP left me the impression you had something to do with Apple. My mistake! Sorry.)

I did go to the Apple Store, with a flash drive in hand, but was told they needed the computer to do the install. They would not upgrade to an external disk, either. They mentioned that while they had access to Apple the installers were part of one large bundle and they couldn't separate out just one OS and the bundle needed the Machine ID to perform an upgrade. (I suspect that even if I take the Mac in, they might not be able to do the upgrade anyway.)

This Mac replaces a Mac Pro 1,1 running Lion (10.7.5) which was as far as it could go. I cloned its boot drive then moved it into a free drive slot in the 2010 Mac Pro, from where I was able to update to Mtn. Lion. it never occurred to me that Apple would restrict access to Mavericks! Silly me...

Well, the good part is I now have a good, clean backup and another, slightly old one on an external (not connected) drive, something I was meaning to do soon anyway.

Now all I need is to save up for PT 12 (or probably 13 by the time I can afford it) and move on.

Once again, thanks for the help.

-Colin

Going forward, I'm sure that you will ALWAYS download a copy of each Major macOS release (and immediately "Quit" the installer), so that each new macOS will be in your App Store -> Purchases tab. That will give you options in the future for installing older versions of macOS

Colin wrote: " it never occurred to me that Apple would restrict access to Mavericks! Silly me..."

Silly you, for thinking machine presence at the counter is Apple's only concern. Apple is a market trend, in a vast ocean. As I have illustrated above, that ocean is a far bigger concern than Colin's little device. Storms they are a-brewing.

That is why, you are absolutely right! Keeping downloads is the only way to be sure of future access.

However, say your machine for some reason really needed a temporary or permanent Mavericks in the eyes of Apple Support. I am certain that then your download would be provided. Apple does keep copies.

saraspeak wrote:

I've been told that you can download Mavericks this way: Find someone who did "purchase" it at the apple store, and have them use your computer to access the store and download it to your computer.

That user would be violating the license. Also the download is signed with their Apple ID.

Well, darn. I have OS 10.8.5, and I can no longer use Skype or participate in some online presentations until I upgrade my browser (MacBook Air, mid-2012). Is it actually possible to skip Mavericks and upgrade directly to Yosemite, El Capitan, or Sierra?